The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999

Exemption certificates E+W+S

20.—(1) The Secretary of State for Defence may, in the interests of national security, by a certificate in writing exempt—

(a) any of the home forces, any visiting force or any headquarters from those requirements of these Regulations which impose obligations other than those in [F1 regulations 16-18AB] on employers; or

(b) any member of the home forces, any member of a visiting force or any member of a headquarters from the requirements imposed by regulation 14;

and any exemption such as is specified in sub-paragraph (a) or (b) of this paragraph may be granted subject to conditions and to a limit of time and may be revoked by the said Secretary of State by a further certificate in writing at any time.

(2) In this regulation—

(a) “the home forces" has the same meaning as in section 12(1) of the Visiting Forces Act 1952 M1 ;

(b) “headquarters" means a headquarters for the time being specified in Schedule 2 to the Visiting Forces and International Headquarters (Application of Law) Order 1999 M2 ;

(c) “member of a headquarters" has the same meaning as in paragraph 1(1) of the Schedule to the International Headquarters and Defence Organisations Act 1964 M3 ; and

(d) “visiting force" has the same meaning as it does for the purposes of any provision of Part I of the Visiting Forces Act 1952.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in reg. 20(1)(a) substituted (1.10.2011) by The Agency Workers Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/93), reg. 1(1), Sch. 2 para. 20

Marginal Citations

M1 1952 c. 67.

M2 S.I. 1999/1736.

M3 1964 c.5.